When reading a specially crafted JPEG file, metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out-of-memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use metadata-extractor library.
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2022-02-24T15:15:00Z",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-03-07T19:35:30Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true
}